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Senior Data Engineer

Employer
Amey
Location
City of London
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
29 Aug 2019

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Sector
Technology & Digital
Hours
Full Time
Flexibility
Flexible working available
Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

Amey Strategic Consulting

Amey has been in business for nearly 100 years with a team of 20,000 working across four continents. We're proud of our long history and the difference we make; serving the communities we work in, whatever the weather and whatever the challenge. We create safer, smarter, and sustainable places to live, work and travel. By designing, building, maintaining and investing in our country's services and infrastructure we make a difference including engineering, facilities management, utilities, transport, environmental services, defence and justice. Amey Consulting is made up of 3,000 data specialists, agile consultants, engineers and designers with revenues in excess of £267m.

The Amey Strategic Consulting practice is built around four offerings, Data Advisory, Data Science & Analytics, Information Services & Platforms, and Digital Strategy Realisation and is recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer to consult with and deliver on projects for our clients. The successful candidate will have autonomy to decide which technologies and methods are best for the challenge at hand and then go make it happen! As a team, we build the tools to let infrastructure managers capture everything they need to know about their assets, structured in a way that is easy to interrogate with BI tools or build advanced machine learning models.


What will this role involve?

Our current pipeline of projects include the migration of 100'sTB of analytic data worth £100'sM, restructure it into a new open sourced cloud system, and then hit delete on the old system. We are also setting up a new rail governing body, in a way that has never been done before and need to migrate a significant number of Network Rail systems and data into that new organisation. As Senior Data Engineer you will

  • Work closely with clients to understand the challenges they face, shape these into well-defined requirements and software solutions
  • Manage end-to-end development of data services: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
  • Develop components that can be reused in a range of sectors, helping clients to make better use of their data and drive intelligent decision making.
  • Develop unique solutions to new and unsolved problems in infrastructure, delivering independantly as well as managing small technical teams
  • Create and develop relationships with high-profile clients up to director level
  • Support business development to gain new work and expand commissions



What are we looking for?

  • Bachelor degree or higher in a STEM subject (or equivalent portfolio/work experience)
  • Experience developing web applications for analytics solutions
  • Proficiency in key enterprise-level development languages (e.g., C#, JavaScript, Python)
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Familiarity with Hadoop and Spark ecosystems
  • Good knowledge of cloud services (e.g. Azure, AWS)
  • Proven ability to contribute to fast-paced technical projects and quickly understand what needs to be done
  • A deep understanding of OOP and associated code design principles
  • Ability to work in an Agile development team
  • Experience using Git and GitHub (or other version control systems)



What makes this role unique?

The successful Senior Data Engineer will consult with and deliver on projects for our clients. They will have autonomy to decide which technologies and methods are best for the challenge at hand and then go make it happen!



Additional Information

Salary: We provide competitive salary packages structured around our internal talent framework. This is reviewed twice a year, offering the opportunity for career progression and promotion.

To learn more about what we can do together, please visit our website www.amey.co.uk/strategic-consulting



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About Amey

We place great value on our people and the contribution they make to our business, that’s why we aim to offer a competitive benefits package to all of our employees.

Working for Amey you will receive a competitive salary and will be able to join our contributory pension scheme. In addition you will be entitled to Company sponsored life assurance and a generous holiday entitlement. You will also be invited to join Amey Choices which offers a range of flexible benefit options and offers additional benefits available throughout the year. Amey is an equal opportunities employer.

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